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Former Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova died on Friday aged 45 after a long battle with throat cancer. Vilanova succeeded Pep Guardiola at Barcelona and won the Spanish league title in 2012, his only season in charge. Vilanova had undergone emergency surgery on Thursday at Clinica Quiron in Barcelona as gastric complications arose, multiple news outlets in Spain reported. The Catalan coach had dealt with cancer in his parotid gland for more than two years. Vilanova had been in the hospital since last Friday, according to Marca. As word of Vilanova's worsening health spread on Thursday, a call for courage of "Anims Tito" went out across social media. Weeks before the start of this season, Vilanova told players he would not be able to continue at the helm of the team. "The doctors recommend that, with the treatments that I must follow from now on, I cannot devote 100 percent to the tasks of head coach as required by FC Barcelona. But I will continue to work closely for ...

The Tigers were 2-1 behind to their Sky Bet League One opponents at half-time - the Blades having twice taken the lead through Jose Baxter and Stefan Scougall - but scored four times in the second half to book a return date at the national stadium against Arsenal on May 17. Yannick Sagbo had briefly brought Hull level at 1-1 but the game was settled after the break with Matty Fryatt, Tom Huddlestone and former Blade Stephen Quinn scoring in an 18-minute burst. Jamie Murphy set up a tense finale when he volleyed home in the 89th minute but David Meyler restored the two-goal cushion deep in added time. Hull boss Steve Bruce, an FA Cup winner with Manchester United in his playing days, will take his share of credit for the turnaround, with Fryatt and Quinn scoring four and three minutes after being sent on as substitutes. But the champagne moment of the afternoon was reserved for Huddlestone, who scored his side's wonderful third with a neat run and deft finish. The game began at a ...

Stand-in goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski was the hero as his two saves helped Arsenal beat the holders 4-2 to reach their first FA Cup final since 2005. After a bright start by Arsenal, it was Wigan who went ahead through a penalty from Jordi Gomez just after the hour. However the Gunners made it 1-1 with seven minutes left through Per Mertesacker, whose foul had given away the spot-kick. After Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had hit the crossbar in extra-time, it was down to penalties. Fabianski - standing in again for regular number one Wojciech Szczesny - produced fine saves from Gary Caldwell and Jack Collison, before Santi Cazorla rolled in the winning spot-kick. The relief was clear for all to see, as Wenger punched the air and the Arsenal players rolled around in a joyous heap on the Wembley turf, their 50,000 fans in delirium. Earlier in the afternoon, Everton's win over Sunderland had pushed Arsenal out of the top four of the Barclays Premier League, and Wenger - who has yet to agre...

Taking lots of selfies is not an addiction but a symptom of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), psychologists warn. "Two out of three of all the patients who come to see me with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) since the rise of camera phones have a compulsion to repeatedly take and post selfies on social media sites," explained David Veale, a consultant psychiatrist at The Priory Hospital, London. In a first such study, experts have linked selfies with mental illness and have suggested that people regularly searching for the perfect angle from which to portray themselves could in some cases be ill. It's official. If you are obsessed with selfies you may be mentally ill, warn psychologists A girl makes a duck face and takes a self portrait with her smart phone. "Taking selfies is not an addiction - it is a BDD symptom that involves checking one's appearance," Veale was quoted as saying in a Sunday Mirror report. Selfie fans with BDD can spend hours trying to ta...

There's a lot to like about Samsung's new Galaxy S5 smartphone - among them, its relative lack of features. Don't get me wrong. The company's new flagship smartphone has plenty of innovations, including water resistance, a heart rate sensor and a fingerprint reader to bypass security passcodes. The screen measures 5.1 inches diagonally, which is slightly larger than its predecessor's 5 inches and much bigger than the iPhone's 4 inches. The S5's camera is capable of taking 16 megapixel images, an improvement from 13 megapixels in last year's Galaxy S4. What's most notable, though, is Samsung's decision to focus on features people might actually want. Some of the S4's features - such as automatic scrolling of content when you tilt your phone or head - came across as clutter or gimmicks that often didn't work as advertised. Galaxy S5 review: There's enough in it to give Samsung another hit There's a lot to like about Samsung's ...

The most powerful sports official in the most cricket-mad country on earth was on the verge of taking global control of the game. Now a corruption scandal could scupper those plans. Narayanaswami Srinivasan rules the Indian board that generates enough money to keep the game afloat, so it seemed a logical progression — to him — to control the International Cricket Council as well. But last week, India's Supreme Court ordered Srinivasan to stand down as president of the national board for the duration of an investigation into corruption in the sport's most lucrative competition — the multi-million-dollar, revenue-spinning Twenty20 Indian Premier League, which pays players exorbitantly high salaries in a shortened, "disco" form of the game. So what's next for Srinivasan, who is due to become chairman of the International Council in July? He hasn't commented, although the Indian media is reporting that he will probably attend ICC meetings later this month as ...

Is there anything impossible in this tech savy world . yes of course . it is the search for missing malaysian jet MH 370 . Did too much technological complicated the search process . Answer is yet to be found . I too don't know anything about aviation technology or aircraft Industry . Too many question than answer in this search mission . Failure to declare the aircraft lost ,misinterpretation of information , lack of coordination in search operation , wrong search location etc are the major issue . More over it show that most of developing third world country are sleeping over the security related issues . The malaysian defense system failed to check the identity of the unknown object in their air . Even with GPS and other satellite tracking facility where did the MH 370 went. How was it able to disguise it . What happened on aboard ?. This Issue raises the security concern . if the report are true it is real matter of concern to navigate a aircraft without being spotted by...

Do you eat, sleep and drink your mobile phone, literally? Limit your WhatsApp or Facebook urge as men using cell phones for over four hours a day are at a greater risk of impotency than those who use it for less than two hours, an alarming research has indicated. Two new studies in Austria and Egypt have linked daily cell phone use to erectile dysfunction (ED). The researchers believe the damage could be caused by the electromagnetic radiation emitted by handsets or the heat they generate. Mobile phone radiation can make men impotent: Research Two new studies in Austria and Egypt have linked daily cell phone use to erectile dysfunction. (Phone and impotency, via Shutterstock) For the study, the researchers recruited 20 men with erectile dysfunction and another group of 10 healthy men with no complaints of ED. There was no difference between either group regarding age, weight, height, smoking, total testosterone or exposure to other known sources of radiation. Scientists found that ...

Four weeks after the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner, searchers on Saturday launched the most intensive hunt yet in the southern Indian Ocean, trying to find the plane's black box recorders before their batteries run out. Up to 10 military planes, three civilian jets and 11 ships will scour a 217,000-sq-km (88,000-sq-mile) patch of desolate ocean some 1,700 km (1,060 miles) northwest of Perth near where investigators believe the plane went down on March 8 with the loss of all 239 people on board. "If we haven't found anything in six weeks we will continue because there are a lot of things in the aircraft that will float," Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the head of the Australian agency coordinating the operation, told reporters. Biggest search yet for missing Malaysian jet Biggest search yet for missing Malaysian jet "Eventually I think something will be found that will help us narrow the search area." Authorities have not ruled ou...

Two US lawmakers asked Secretary of State John Kerry to demand India to release a New York police officer after a tabloid termed his arrest as New Delhi's revenge for the Khobragade affair. Harlem Police Officer Manny Encarnacion, "who had accidentally left three bullets in the pocket of a jacket in his checked luggage" was arrested when he flew to New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport March 10, for a vacation with his wife Vida, according to the New York Post. By Post's account a security officer at the airport snarked, "You guys like to strip-search our diplomats," as Encarnacion was arrested on felony charges under India's Arms Act of 1959 - punishable by anywhere from three to seven years. The officer's remark was a clear reference to the Dec 12 arrest and strip search of Devyani Khobragade, India's then deputy consul general in New York "over visa fraud", the newspaper suggested. However, State Department spokes...